A Series Of Unfortunate Events Books Summary
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Everything You Need to Remember From the Books
13
Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and Count Olaf wander onto an island led by a man named Ishmael (yup, another Moby Dick reference). Kit also ends up shipwrecked there too. A few of the inhabitants decide to help the children under the condition that the Baudelaires join their plans to overthrow their leader. Gathering weapons at the island's arboretum, the three siblings discover a book. They learn that their parents were once leaders of this island before Ishmael took over and enforced harsh living conditions.
Ishmael stabs Olaf with a harpoon and unleashes the poisonous mushroom in Sunny's helmet, which Olaf had kept to use as a weapon. The poison spreads across the island. The children quickly give everyone horseradish apples but the islanders decide to sail away with their leader. They refocus on helping Kit, who enters labor. Olaf carries her down to a safe area by the beach before he himself dies. Refusing to eat the hybrid apple that would harm her child, Kit passes away in childbirth. The children reside on the island and take care of Kit's daughter Beatrice. After a year, they depart the island by boat. Snicket leaves the ending vague, so we don't know for sure whether or not the protagonists make it back onto land.